the steel toe match between Iron Sheik and Sgt. Slaughter was my favorite match from when I was a kid. the sunday wrastlin before Kunk-fu theatre was the best tv line-up, and it was on the USA network!

/nobody bodders me!//nobody bodders me eeder!///only obscure if you didn't live the southeast in the early/mid 80's

They refer to this as "adaptational attractiveness" on TV Tropes. Basically, whenever a true story or work of fiction is adapted to television or film, the actor is always more attractive than the person they're portraying. Take the movie Walk the Line: June Carter is played by Reese Witherspoon, who is quite a bit more attractive than the real-life June Carter. Or if you want a fictional example you just need to look at Game of Thrones: Tyrion in the books is described as being very ugly, but in the show he's played by Peter Dinkledge, who many female viewers find to be handsome. Also, Arya is described as being homely in the books, but in the show she's played by Maisie Williams, who is quite cute.

They refer to this as "adaptational attractiveness" on TV Tropes. Basically, whenever a true story or work of fiction is adapted to television or film, the actor is always more attractive than the person they're portraying. Take the movie Walk the Line: June Carter is played by Reese Witherspoon, who is quite a bit more attractive than the real-life June Carter. Or if you want a fictional example you just need to look at Game of Thrones: Tyrion in the books is described as being very ugly, but in the show he's played by Peter Dinkledge, who many female viewers find to be handsome. Also, Arya is described as being homely in the books, but in the show she's played by Maisie Williams, who is quite cute.

Arya IS pretty homely in the show; I can't imagine what your idea of homely is.

gmpilot:Arya IS pretty homely in the show; I can't imagine what your idea of homely is.

In the books, Arya is so long-faced and homely that she's frequently mistaken as a boy. In the show, people being able to mistake Arya for a boy was dropped in Season 2 because Maisie Williams looks too much like a girl to make it believable (Tywin knew right away she was a girl, some of his more dim-witted subordinates didn't - and I don't think anyone has mistaken her for a girl since).

But if you want an even better example of adaptational attractiveness you only have to look at Brienne; in the books she's described as a freakishly large and very ugly woman with crooked teeth and broad, masculine features. In the TV show she is played by Gwendoline Christie, who is plain-looking at worst and actually rather pretty when she's all cleaned-up.

darkjezter:But if you want an even better example of adaptational attractiveness you only have to look at Brienne; in the books she's described as a freakishly large and very ugly woman with crooked teeth and broad, masculine features. In the TV show she is played by Gwendoline Christie, who is plain-looking at worst and actually rather pretty when she's all cleaned-up.

In the books it's pretty clear she's thought of as ugly because she's masculine in build and to Westerosi culture that's the worst way a woman can look. But yeah, even allowing for that; Gwendoline Christie has done some modelling in the past, it's a safe bet she's a little more attractive than the character.

Gunther:In the books it's pretty clear she's thought of as ugly because she's masculine in build and to Westerosi culture that's the worst way a woman can look. But yeah, even allowing for that; Gwendoline Christie has done some modelling in the past, it's a safe bet she's a little more attractive than the character.